Denmark
National policy | |
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National policy/strategy or official recommendations on HIV testing? | Yes |
National policy/strategy document | |
Who can administer HIV tests? | |
Restrictions on who can legally administer HIV tests? | Yes |
Which groups can legally do HIV testing? |
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Further comments | |
Free HIV testing | |
HIV testing free to all who want it? | Yes for all |
Further comments | |
Is free HIV testing available? | Across whole country |
Further comments | Free at test clinics, General Practitioners and Hospitals. |
HIV testing restrictions | |
HIV testing access restricted for some groups/populations? | No |
Which groups are restricted | |
Further comments | Children under the age of 15 can not do a HIV test without parental supervision. Some testing services target most at risk populations (i.e. migrants, MSM) |
Availability of testing in non-clinical settings | |
Is testing available in any of the following ways? | |
Postal HIV sampling legal? | No |
Home HIV testing legal? | No |
Community testing at NGOs legal? | Yes |
Community/outreach event testing legal? | Yes |
Other | cruising areas, sex clubs, train stations, asylum centres and events |
Rapid tests used by community based testing services/initiatives? | Finger blood, Saliva |
Anonymity/Confidentiality of HIV testing | |
Anonymous testing available? | Yes |
If yes, please give details | If found a positive result, the person has to be registered to be able to access free treatment |
If not, why not, what sort of information is required and is there any promise of confidentiality? | |
Discrimination & equality | |
Legislation | |
Legislation protecting the rights of people with HIV? | Yes |
Further comments | Employers are not allowed to ask if an employee has HIV, and the employee is not obliged to reveal his/her status- even in health care professions. The same goes for patients |
Other key populations | |
Needle exchange available for people who inject drugs? | Yes |
Further comments | One respondent stated that there are ambulances provided with nurses that can assist with people in safer injecting. Availablilty of needle exchange is also confirmed by information available on https://www.hri.global/global-state-of-harm-reduction |
Opiate substitution therapy available? | Yes |
Further comments | Heroin is available on prescription. Availablilty of OST is also confirmed by information available on https://www.hri.global/global-state-of-harm-reduction |
Are PWID (people who inject drugs) excluded from HIV treatment while actively using drugs? | No |
Further comments | One respondent stated that helpers from drug-treatment centres often escort PWID to doctors appointments. A few PWID are offered a kind of OST programme where a volunteer calls them to remind them to take their ART. |
Legal to sell sex? | Yes |
Further comments | For further information see http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexworklaw |
Legal to buy sex? | Yes |
Further comments | Pimping and brothels are illegal. For further information see http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexworklaw |
Access to HIV Treatment | |
Free access to HIV treatment? | Yes, for some |
Further comments | Migrants without legal residence do not have free access to treatment. One respondent stated that 2 clinics do provide services to migrants without legal residence but their services aren't specific to HIV. |
Status and access to HIV treatment and care in your country | |
Access to HIV treatment restricted for certain populations with HIV? | Yes |
Which groups are restricted? |
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If more than one of the above populations selected, please give more information | |
Status | |
Country status | EU |
Mobility in Europe | |
Do the following groups/populations have legal access to HIV treatment? (i.e provided on the same basis as citizens of the country) | |
Legal treatment access: Other EU migrant nationals | Yes there is universal access |
If yes but exceptions, please describe | |
Legal treatment access: general non-EU migrants | Yes there is universal access |
If yes but exceptions, please describe | |
Legal treatment access: Non-EU migrants with asylum/refugee status | Yes there is universal access |
If yes but exceptions, please describe | |
Legal treatment access: Non-EU migrants who are undocumented | No |
If yes but exceptions, please describe | Migrants without legal residence do not have free access to treatment. One respondent stated that 2 clinics do provide services to migrants without legal residence but their services aren't specific to HIV. |
Further comments | |
About this data | |
Last minor revision | 12 July 2016 |
Last major revision | 12 January 2017 |
Published | 11 January 2017 |
Data sources | As well as responses from in-country individuals and organisations information was taken from the following sources: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/aids/Pages/monitoring-dublin-declaration.aspx Sex Work Laws These included https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_by_country#Europe The Global Network of Sex Work Projects www.nswp.org and country sources and http://sexualrightsdatabase.org/map/21/Adult%20sex%20work and http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexworklaw Drug use Needle exchange information was taken from Harm Reduction International who have an interactive tool https://www.hri.global/global-state-of-harm-reduction Criminal Law http://criminalisation.gnpplus.net has useful info about the criminal law and is searchable by country as well as http://www.hivjustice.net/site/countries/ MSM http://ilga.org/what-we-do/state-sponsored-homophobia-report/ (2016) |
Data contacts | Responses were received from The Danish AIDS foundation (AIDS-Fondet) (www.aidsfondet.dk) and HIV-Denmark (www.hiv-danmark.dk)and SSI (www.ssi.dk). |